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The movie is based upon a graphic novel written by an exceptionally smart author, Alan Moore. It's a very densly plotted comic-book story about a terrorist "V" who takes England back from the group of extreme, right wing fascists who've taken over England in the 1980's. He systematically dismantles their propaganda machines, their intrusive and constant surveillance and even blows Big Ben up. (I guess he hates clocks, too.)
It's an angry, angry book that Moore originally intended as a sharply barbed polemnic, fired directly at Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Even he, in his pessimistic imagination could not imagine the world that we actually live in, in today's US. (His book has people living with their phones always being tapped and having homosexuals and minorities so hated that they're literally shipped off to pseudo concentration camps.)
Very powerful stuff.
And it's very clearly a urgent cry for the radical that lies inside all of us, to stand up and take action (yes, even violent action) against fascist governments. Even ones that claim to be a democracy.
It speaks to my Inner Anarchist.
I hear the movie is devastatingly powerful and keeps to this "Call to Arms" theme. As in the book, "V"s true identity is never revealed. Which is, I think, a smart move on the movie producers part.
Another smart move is their movie posters. They're intentionally designed to mimic the art styles of other radical, anarchistic poster art from around the world. They're very striking. Very powerful. Very evocative. Very clearly political. Each one a lovely "Call to Arms" (Or yes, A Call to See a Movie.)
I love them.
And I'm reprinting them here for you to enjoy too...
March 17. Go see that movie. You can thank me, later.
COB out...
Poster #1
Poster #2
Poster #3
Poster #4
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